It's all so fuckin' tiresome. Pre election propaganda, preaching largely to his own electorate and the misguided millions who will side with that other ex public schoolboy - Nigel Farage - thinking that he's one of their own.
The end result of this is people destitute on the streets and in hospital beds, then dead.
You have to decide what society to have.
I don't want Dave's - and I don't particularly want Ed's either. Or Nick's or Nigel's, as they are all too scared to do what's needed in order to fund systems which look after us all properly - for the NHS, care for ALL elderly and the physically and mentally sick; social services capable of preventing and detecting child abuse; education and health systems adequately funded and resourced with enough professionals to cope; prisons big enough to cope and contain the dross who threaten us - and face the fact that, in order for those systems to work, you have to build in excess so that no one is neglected. And more than anything, someone needs to say that, in order to achieve this, it is going to cost us.
I want a society where we look after each other and, if that costs us, so be it. I want a society where the rule of law prevails, but that can't happen when only the rich have access to the legal system (lawyer speaking - wait till you need the law, then see how much it costs you. No legal aid nowadays and, it having been abolished so that you could all go "No win no fee", you'll find that there's barely any no win no fee anymore either.)
We should all pay more to get the best, safest society we can, and just realise that it doesn't come cheap.
I am sick and tired of hearing about cuts and costs.
Why do we have repeated failures in hospitals? Why are they unable to cope at times of strain? Why are there repeated child abuse cases which go uncovered and unattended to? Why are lessons never learned? Why do have places - Rotherham/Rochdale - where child abuse has gone on for years, undetected, on an industrialised scale? Why will the politicians not address these issues? These are disgusting stains on our society and if you are a politician and these things are happening on your watch, you should be ashamed.
Instead, we have talk of cuts, limiting immigration, and ridiculously leaving the EU, with no regard for the reality that ANY cuts will make our society even worse than it already is, and that leaving the EU is the last thing that big business wants, and will most probably ruin our economy. Little businessmen and little Englanders might want us out of the EU, but that isn't based on any kind of proper consideration of the reality of what will actually happen to our economy on the day after the great unwashed tick the "OUT" box, because of the propaganda we are currently being brainwashed by. The value of the pound will tumble and we will be in the biggest crisis ever
And another thing, while I'm ranting - has it registered with anyone that, in the recent talks on the Ukraine crisis, who was involved? Merkel, Alande, and Putin. No Cameron. He has excluded himself and is an irrelevance internationally; boxing himself into a corner due to his fake hostility to the EU - which he thinks he has to maintain because of the extreme right wing of his party, and his fear of UKIP. It is a mark of how far our international standing has fallen under successive governments. It is a sign of persistent political failure by Conservative and Labour. We have no international influence. Merkel is "The Man!"
So, lets cut, cut, cut - but reduce taxes, so that there's less in the pot to pay for what we need. Keep your foot on the throat of the fat, workshy alcoholics - that will save us millions won't it. But we can carry on investing billions on HS2 and trident - absolutely billions - just to keep up the appearance of the UK having any relevance on the international scene. Ignore the tax dodgers - that will all blow over soon.
Anyway - up the blues!
